Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Modbury Hospital

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Modbury area of South Australia was 182 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 182 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 45 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 43 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 67 days in 2017–18 to 182 days in 2024–25 — up 172% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lyell McEwin Hospital, about 10 km away, at 99 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Modbury Hospital	182 days	not published	45 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	84 days	9.4%	456 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	95 days	9.8%	1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 days marks the national median.

Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 10 km away99 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 12 km away87 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 13 km away174 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 15 km away155 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 24 km away76 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 38 km away105 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 225 km away76 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Modbury Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	40	75
2017–18	67	62	70
2018–19	66	63	70
2019–20	121	91	87
2020–21	not published	104	113
2021–22	115	111	121
2022–23	352	109	138
2023–24	115	77	90
2024–25	182	84	95

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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